Thesis (Ph.D.)--Old Dominion University, 2001. / Advisor: Pindur, Wolfgang. Includes bibliographical references.

Urban violence represents one of the greatest development challenges for Latin American countries. During the past two decades, Mexico has witnessed an alarming increase of violence levels heavily associated with homicides and crimes related to drug trafficking. The way this extreme violence problem has been framed has had implications regarding the focus of studies which, from a variety of disciplines, are concerned in understanding the socio-economic causes, the regional security, and governance consequences as well as the national, sub-national and local government policy responses to this phenomenon. In this context, the multifaceted ways in which daily violence manifests in the urban space have been less studied. Aiming to shed light on how varied types of violence and insecurity are experienced at the local level, this research adapts an ecological framework in an attempt to disentangle the impact that urban planning has on the perceptions that citizens living in inner cities and peripheral settlements have of their own urban space, and what the implications for future violence reduction policies may be. Through a comparative study of two Mexican cities, and using participatory methods including transect walks, auto-photography and risk mapping assessments, the research explores the perceptions of violence and insecurity and their link to urban space, highlighting the role that physical and spatial interventions have played. A main finding of the research is that, while these interventions are seen by policy makers and city planners as an answer to violence, failing to include residents' perceptions of violence and insecurity in the design and implementation of these responses limits their effectiveness and outcomes. Moreover, implementation of generic socio-spatial solutions in Mexican cities tends to obscure the real causes of violence, and in some cases, worsens residents' feelings of insecurity. In this sense, urban planning seems to have exacerbated the experiences and manifestations of insecurity and violence.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Dallas, 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-111)

Orientador: Augusto Caccia-Bava / Banca: Carla Gandini Giani Martelli / Banca: Mirlene Fátima Simões Wexell Severo / Resumo: A sociedade civil brasileira tem sido caracterizada, também, por sua violência urbana. Os estudos referentes ao tema apontam a existência de grupos e categorias sociais mais vulneráveis à esse tipo de violência. Para subsidiar políticas públicas de urbanização e segurança urbana de superação da violência, é importante o estudo das experiências de grupos familiares em conjuntos habitacionais populares, em especial suas experiências num condomínio que conta, em seu em torno, com a prática da violência, tornando-se território de reprodução da insegurança urbana familiar. O presente projeto se dirige ao estudo de famílias que vivem essa experiência, na condição de moradores do Condomínio Residencial dos Oitis, na cidade de Araraquara. A metodologia a se recorrer é a de estudo de caso de grupos, a partir de entrevistas. O resultado esperado é a identificação das capacidades desses grupos familiares, articuladas às unidades públicas governamentais, para enfrentarem a violência urbana local / Abstract: Brazil's civil society has often been characterized by its urban violence. Studies on this theme indicate the existence of groups and social categories that are particularly vulnerable to this type of violence. In order to complement public urbanisation, urban security and anti-violence policies, it is important to study the experiences of family groups in popular housing. In particular, focus must be placed on their experiences in condominiums that are surrounded by violence and have become territories of urban insecurity for families. The present project examines families from the "Condomínio Residencial dos Oitis" in the city of Araraquara that are living through this experience of urban violence and urban insecurity. The primary methodology is the study of group cases obtained through interviews. The desired result is the identification of the capabilities of these family groups, which can then be communicated to local public government welfare units in order to address local urban violence / Mestre

Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Freeman, Michael. Second Reader: Rothstein, Hy. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 26, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Salinas, violence, gangs, education, unemployment rate, economy, population, housing, police force, prison, rivalry, social service, community involvement, prevention, intervention. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-87). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 284-302). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

This thesis examines how informal mediation is practiced in Brazil’s urban periphery communities, which are often associated with high levels of violence and insecurity. Based on ethnographic data from low-income neighborhoods in Florianópolis, my analysis of local people’s interventions offers insight into the way that non-state, unarmed actors exercise mediative agency in the midst of everyday violence and insecurity. While a growing body of research shows that state and non-state actors are guided by diverse conceptions, intentions and approaches when they attempt to mediate public and private conflict amongst residents, less attention has been paid to the symbiotic relationship between, or the social impact of, conflict intervention and the reproduction of violence. This thesis argues that interveners use their interactions with antagonists in a particular territory in order to cultivate nondominant power, which serves to obstruct and interrupt the way that violence reproduces and transmits into residents’ lives. As such, it suggests that mediators can enable social change because they have a very particular relationship with the different and interdependent types of violence present in the periphery. Interveners develop and deploy a repertoire of social mediative tactics in order to contend with the complexity of local tensions and the erosion of democratic citizenship that these tensions produce. Defining mediative practices as a source of power invites discussion into community mediation’s strategic potential in the project of urban peacebuilding and violence reduction, positing new directions for applied practices in Brazil and beyond.

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Orientador: Adilson Jose Ruiz / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T01:19:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Colucci_MariaBeatriz_D.pdf: 570060 bytes, checksum: 2c375530ab71bdafaabdd1bc3609857a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Esta tese analisa a violência urbana em quatro documentários brasileiros lançados no período de 1999 a 2003: Notícias de uma guerra particular (1999), O rap do pequeno príncipe contra as almas sebosas (2000), Ônibus 174 (2002) e O prisioneiro da grade de ferro (2003). Como um painel sobre a contemporaneidade, estes filmes conformam uma certa etnografia audiovisual da violência urbana brasileira, vista como um campo complexo de relações articuladas a esse contexto histórico específico. Tais relações apontam para o rompimento da invisibilidade dos setores sociais que vivem nos espaços de exclusão brasileiros; e sua presença na mídia, especialmente no cinema, forma, então, um conjunto significante acerca do momento histórico vivenciado no Brasil no início do século XXI, e permite identificar diferentes estratégias utilizadas para o filme representar, ou representificar essa realidade histórica. Neste sentido, quatro modos se destacam: (1) as relações com o contexto histórico, que evidenciam a violência urbana brasileira no período; (2) o tipo de negociações entre os "sujeitos" documentaristas e documentados, suas implicações e determinações, o discurso construído e sua articulação na estrutura da narrativa; (3) as passagens entre imagens que permitem níveis diferenciados de recepção do tema e remetem às relações midiáticas inseridas no imaginário contemporâneo; e (4) a superação de modelos e a renovação na linguagem, que manifestam fragmentação, hibridismo e reflexividade, marcas do cinema contemporâneo. Tendo por base a trajetória do filme documentário até a contemporaneidade, suas diversas definições e categorizações; este trabalho situa seus principais marcos e discussões, levando em conta, ainda, a contribuição da antropologia e das pesquisas e críticas sobre a imagem e o filme documentário, além da tematização da violência pelo cinema brasileiro. / Abstract: This thesis analyses urban violence represented in four Brazilian documentaries that were released between 1999 and 2003: News of a private war (1999), Little Prince's Rap against nasty souls (2000), Bus 174 (2002), and The prisoner of the iron bars (2003). As an overall view of contemporary times, these films present an audiovisual ethnography of Brazilian urban violence, seen as a complex field of relationships that are articulated in this specific historical context. Such relationships point to the end of the invisibility of social sectors that have lived in spaces of exclusion in Brazil; and the presence of such a subject in the midia, especially in the movies, forms, therefore, a significant set about the historical moment lived in Brazil at the beginning of the XXI century, and it allows identifying different strategies used by the movie to represent or re-represent this historic reality. In this sense, four strategic ways are highlighted: (1) the relationships with the historical context that show Brazilian urban violence in that period; (2) the type of negotiation between the "subjects" who made the documentaries and the ones represented in the documentaries, their implications and determinations, the discourse that was built and its articulation in the structure of the narrative; (3) the passages between images that allow different levels of perception of the theme and that lead to the media relationships involved in contemporary thinking; and (4) the overcoming of models and the renovation in language that show fragmentation, hybridism and reflection, trademarks of contemporary cinema. Taking the history of the documentary film up to contemporary times as a base, with its diverse definitions and categories, this work presents its main achievements and discussions, even taking into consideration the contribution of anthropology, research, and critique of the image and of the documentary film, going beyond the theme of violence represented by the Brazilian cinema. / Doutorado / Multimeios / Doutor em Multimeios

This thesis examines how informal mediation is practiced in Brazil’s urban periphery communities, which are often associated with high levels of violence and insecurity. Based on ethnographic data from low-income neighborhoods in Florianópolis, my analysis of local people’s interventions offers insight into the way that non-state, unarmed actors exercise mediative agency in the midst of everyday violence and insecurity. While a growing body of research shows that state and non-state actors are guided by diverse conceptions, intentions and approaches when they attempt to mediate public and private conflict amongst residents, less attention has been paid to the symbiotic relationship between, or the social impact of, conflict intervention and the reproduction of violence. This thesis argues that interveners use their interactions with antagonists in a particular territory in order to cultivate nondominant power, which serves to obstruct and interrupt the way that violence reproduces and transmits into residents’ lives. As such, it suggests that mediators can enable social change because they have a very particular relationship with the different and interdependent types of violence present in the periphery. Interveners develop and deploy a repertoire of social mediative tactics in order to contend with the complexity of local tensions and the erosion of democratic citizenship that these tensions produce. Defining mediative practices as a source of power invites discussion into community mediation’s strategic potential in the project of urban peacebuilding and violence reduction, positing new directions for applied practices in Brazil and beyond. / Marie Curie Sustainable Peacebuilding Fellowship